Here’s a quick selection of some of the new gear we saw at Cine Gear.
- L-R: Juergen Schwinzer (Cooke/ZGC), Jon Fauer, Denny Clairmont (Clairmont Camera)
- Vintage Vantage Hawk Anamorphic. Using 1974 style coating for “enhanced flares.”
- New Leica Summilux-C 65 mm Prime at Band Pro booth. Note close-focus marks (1’6″ -2″ ‘in orange).
- New Leica Summilux-C 16 mm lens prototype. Expected at IBC, along with 135, 29, and 65 mm
- Peter Martin of Vantage Film with Carnaby Effect filter
- Vantage’s Carnaby Collection creates flares and effects, especially when hit with direct light
- New Tangerine Matteboxes from Andy Subratie, who formerly managed the camera rental department at ARRI Media
- New Airstarfilm Space Invader helium-filled balloon light tethered above Cine Gear Magic Hour sky
- Charles Vallieres of Shape WLB with shoulder rig for Canon C300/500. Press the sprint-loadedred buttons to adjust the handgrip position.
- Camera right side of the Shape rig for Canon. Note how the original Canon handgrip/start-stop/function grip is moved forward (and connected via cable to camera).
- Mole Richardson shallow Spacelights: Fluoresent and LED
- Florescent bulbs inside shallow Mole Ricardson Space Light. Good for stages with low ceilings (Quixote on N. Fuller Ave).
- Mole Richardson LED Spacelight
- Airstarfilms low profile helium filled light floats comfortably against low ceilings
- New focus system for Canon lenses from Optitek.org
- From ZGC: New baseplate for Sony F3 with all the right connectors, power management, rosettes and rod holder
- Sony F65 Power Connectors from Clairmont Camera
- Larry Barton’s Cinematography Electronics standard-of-the-industry Cine Tape Measure system on ARRI Alexa with Transvideo monitor and Cooke 5/i 32 mm.
- Codex Onboard-S on Sony F3
- 16x9Inc Baseplate with Movcam Accessories for Canon C300: handles and power breakout box at rear
- Movcam accessories for Canon C300
- Pawel Achtel’s lightweight underwater 3D housing for Red EPICs using Nikonos lenses at Band Pro Booth
- Easyfocus works with Preston Cinema system, shown at Preston Cinema booth at Cine Gear. Easyfocus is a distance measurement tool with a touchscreen, invented by Fritz Gabriel Bauer, AAC, designer of Moviecam and Arricam.
- Steve Manios, Jr of Manios Digital and Film with new Cartoni JIBO, a lightweight jib arm that fits into its own case and is good for cameras up to 33 lbs.
- JIBO rhymes with Sail-Ho — weighs 25 lbs and sets up in 3 minutes
- Cartoni JIBO holds cameras upright, sideways or underslung–seen here with Cartoni Spinhead
- Manios Digital and Film is the US distributor for EVF (first seen at IBC) powered by AA batteries that run for about 10 hours
- From Matthews: iPad holders. Very useful since the iPad is become a standard control panel for many cameras
- Matthews iPad holder
- The new PRO cartridge flies cameras up to 92 lb
- Litegears flexible, cuttable, useful 12 volt LED strips
- Hive Lighting Plasma Spacelight
- Mario Desisti with new LED Fresnel Lights
- Two RED Epics, Angenieux lightweight DP Zooms on Marty Mueller’s Converging Concepts 3D Rig at Radiant Images’ booth
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